Our insanely good saxophone player Bendik Brænne has just released his latest album called Benedictionary. The album is fantastic, the reviews are great, and we recommend you all to give it a listen. Congrats to Bendik!

In that occation Bendik is holding a release concert, and guess what: He invited us to join the party. And IT’S GONNA BE A PARTY! We play @Kampen Bistro on Thursdag and Friday next week, both bands play both nights. Tickets are almost out, so be shure to get you tickets right away ’cause you don’t wanna miss this!

Artwork by: Sondre Kvipt

New gigs announced

June 27, 2018

Hola compadres! We have just announced a few new gigs! Time to start saving those dates in your calendar.

We are very excited to announce that we’ll be doing some split gigs with the talented Bendik Brænne & The Country Swindlers, especially since Bendik have been our saxophone player for years Super talented guy that makes great music. Be sure to check out his music!

Also, Nikolai Grasaasen, made this wicked cool poster for us for some of the upcoming gigs. Stay tuned for this guys, you don’t wanna miss this (!).

CINCO DE MAYO @ GAASA (NO)

April 28, 2018

We are looking forward to celebrating Cinco de Mayo with you all this year again. Los Plantronics, both acoustic and electric, tacos and coctails – we see NO reason for you not to come. Or bring all your best friends!

Hope to see you there! Hasta la vista, amigos.

UK Rock & Roll Magazine

February 28, 2018

UK Rock & Roll Magazine have written up a full page feature on us and the “Best Of” release in their latest issue! That is really cool! Thanks guys, we send lots of Mexican love from Norway.

This Friday we’ll be playing @ Tronsmo to give you all a little bit of feliz navidad feeling and also serve you some mexican “gløgg” to make sure you surf correctly into the Christmas tree. We’ll be signing books with photographer Stian S. Evensen after an intimate and accustic set in the book store. See you there!

And that’s not all!! There’s an album too… “The Worst Is Yet To Come (Best Of 1996 – 2017)” is a mad collection of songs we have recorded over the last 22 years. A real FIESTA in other words. Artwork is done by our fantastic brother Johnny Stingray. Please check his other work too!

We are very much looking forward to this coming Saturday! We will release our “Best of” album titled “The worst is yet to come”, we are releasing a coffee table book titled “Los Plantronics – Mariachi: Hecho en Noruega”, AND we will celebrate the annual Day of the Dead, Dia de la Muertos, with fabulous guests. Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind (UK) are coming, and so are The Barbwires (S) as well as Paul-Ronney Angel (UK) and DJ Soulmilla. All of this is happening at the legendary Parkteatret: You don’t wanna miss this!

Bedford & London

October 10, 2017

Finally this weekend is close, and we cannot wait to travel to UK for 2 fantastic nights with The Urban Voodoo Machine. First night, Friday the 13th (!), in Bedford. Second night, Saturday 14th, in London.

Here are links to both events. Make sure to get your tickets, we’ll see you there!

Los Plantronics are headin’ North! This FIESTA should be in your calendar if you’re in Tromsø and ready for some Mexican madness. Get your tickets!!

Bastard celebrating 8 years

September 15, 2017

Bastard is one of Tromsø’s hottest places to hang, and now they’re celebrating their 8 year birthday! Los Plantronics will be there BOTH Friday and Saturday to make sure Bastard gets a proper party. See you there!!

DAY OF THE DEAD 2017

September 8, 2017

We are very excited about celebrating Day of the Dead (Dia de la muertos) this year! We’ll be playing at the fantastic Parkteatret in Oslo with great guests!! Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind (UK), The Barbwires (S), Paul-Ronney Angel (UK) and DJ Soulmilla. You don’t wanna miss this!

GUTTER CITY – ROSKILDE (DK)

August 17, 2017

Pretty excited about this festival that’s coming up in just a few weeks! Check out that line-up of bands!! Hope to see lots of fans there!

Hilsen fra Ringnes, Skotbu

June 28, 2017

Very much looking forward to this special and unique festival. Los Plantronics will finish off the festival on Saturday night, and this time with a twist! Be prepared to be entertained by a different Los Plantronics. We always love coming here, and we cannot wait for this years festival!

GYPSY HOTEL IN LONDON WITH THE URBAN VOODOO MACHINE

June 22, 2017

We cannot wait to travel to London to meet and play with our fellow conquistadors, no other than the famous and mysterious, the legendary Urban Voodoo Machine!! Hope to see lots of fans at the show, it WILL be a BLAST!!

May 2, 2017

New gigs

March 21, 2017

Hi!

Just wanted to let you all know that we are booking gigs for 2017. We have 2 exciting gigs in Oslo (Cinco de Mayo in May and the legendary Day of the Dead in October), a two night show in Tromsø in September, and of course the fantastic Ringnes (Skotbu) in august. We are also working on some gigs outside of Norway, and will be announcing gigs in England and Denmark very soon.

Stay tuned!!

Concerts 2017

February 2, 2017

HOLA! We are in the planning of new gigs for 2017 and will soon bring you more news on this.

We are very pleased to announce that we will be performing at Ringnes (Skotbu) again this year. This is truly a unique festival, and place, and a festival we LOVE to come back to. Extraordinary in every way. This year, be on the look out for a different Los Plantronics.

We are also looking at doing some gigs in Oslo, possibly Sweden and England, so stay tuned! Day of the Dead will be extra awesome this year too, so STAY TUNED!! Make sure you have enough tequila, and prepare for a fun year of rock’EL’roll!

DAY OF THE DEAD 2016

September 25, 2016

Day of the Dead is coming up, and you guessed it right: Los Plantronics will once again celebrate the dead like no others!

We’ll be playing @ Last Train in Oslo, Saturday October 29th. Be there!

We will celebrate the dead with all you great amigos, as well as the kicking band For The Love Of Ivy. Some of you may them remember from last years’ Day of the Dead @ Postkontoret. If you were there, you remember! That’s why we’re on the same stage again.

Get your custume on, bring out the tequila, and get ready to celebrate like there’s no tomorrow!!

Check out this really cool video that Surforama made! We are super excited to play at the festival in just a few weeks!!

From the description on Youtube:
“Link, Dick & Bo; Waiting for the Wave”. Three of our favorite immortal legends talking about the wave of Surf & Roll will come to Valencia from 19 to 21 May 2016. All information at: http://festivalsurforama.es/

SPYDEBERG ROCK FESTIVAL

May 2, 2016

We’re looking forward to be performing at Spydeberg Rock Festival on the 27th of May. It’s gonna be a really cool festival. AND, Spydeberg is very close to the birthplace of Slim Slammer, and lord knows what kind of voodoo this will spell on Slim Slammer. It’s bound to be awesome! See you there!!

Hallingtons (pop punk) & For The Love Of Ivy (cramped Rock’n’Roll).
Come on Down, Have Fun and be Dead Cool!!!Art by Johnny Stingray.

NEW VIDEO – FROM MECCA TO MESCALITO

August 7, 2015

NEW VIDEO FROM THE NEWLY RELEASED ALBUM “SURFING TIMES”! This video, From Mecca to Mescalito, contains footage from Los Plantronics’ Mexico tour in 2011 where we toured with the great band Lost Acapulco.

Surfing Times is out now on Jansen Plateproduksjon (JANSEN048).

Editor and additional footage: Gunnar Knutsen @ Tumblewine Films.

SKOTBU 2015

August 3, 2015

Really looking forward to playing at this FANTASTIC festival this weekend! See you there!

NEW VIDEO FROM THE COMING ALBUM “SURFING TIMES”! This video, SHAWNEE, contains footage from the vintage film “Ungdom i bil” from 1965 by Dag Klippenberg. Surfing Times is out May 8th on Jansen Plateproduksjon (JANSEN048)

We’re so looking forward to this great gig with Hola Ghost and Los Mariachis. It will be great to be back in Copenhagen, and hope to see many familiar faces there! This will be a great night of mariachi madness you don’t wanna miss!!

2015 will be a great year for Los Plantronics! We’ll be celebrating our 20th aniversary, and we have a brand new album coming out to you in May. We also have some cool gigs, but first, let’s start it all with a new single: SHORTNIN’ BREAD

We’ll be releasing this single @ Gaasa (Oslo) on Saturday January 31th. We start the show at 15:00, so bring your kids, your family, your wife and your mexican lover, and get ready for some sweet mariachi death surf accompanied with some chili con carne! Hope to see you there!

LONDON February 2015

December 19, 2014

NEW GIGS

December 10, 2014

2015 will be an exciting year for Los Plantronics. We’ll be celebrating 20 years, and have a single coming out shortly, followed by a new album in May with a HUGE fiesta. We have some new gigs for this Christmas and 2015, and more to come. Check ‘em out, stay tuned, and hope to see you around!

DAY OF THE DEAD 2014

December 10, 2014

LOS PLANTRONICS AT THE CLASSIC SCOOTER RUN

June 3, 2013

LOS PLANTRONICS AT CLUB DUSK TIL DAWN

April 22, 2013

LOS PLANTRONICS IN STUDIO!!

February 25, 2013

Los Plantronics are recording 12 new songs at Snaxville Recordings with Henrik Maarud at the board.
Look out for a new album later this year titled “ SURFING TIMES”.

For our next album, titled “SURFING TIMES”, see link: www.johnnystingray.com , we have decided to work with artist Johnny Stingray who will supply art for the entire album, front/back/gatefold, the lot!

Some of his work is featured in a new book about surf-art called SURF GRAPHICS . Order & Enjoy!

The night brought together some of the most exciting and wildest elements of rock ‘n’ roll, burlesque, circus and the eclectic sets of The Rock and The Roll of The World as selected by dj Scratchy, tour DJ for such top bands as The Clash, the Pogues and Gogol Bordello. Feat. The Urban Voodoo Machine, Jim Jones Revue, Dead Brothers, The Mighty Stef, Mama Rosin, Little Victor, Los Plantronics etc. etc. Buy it here!

Don’t miss the Pre-Releaseparty at JOHN DEE Saturday the 5th of Mars with very special guests; Ensemble FANFARONNER + Top notch DJ’s who’s spinning 78 rpm records!

LOS PLANTRONICS’ brand new recordings have arrived fresh from the mixing desk, a revolutionary blast from the future and the past. The self explainery title of the album is “ORGANIC VOODOO SOUP” which has turned out to be a bigger, wider and a more wholesome record than their earlier works. In a way, this album has a more focused vision of a proper long play, as opposed to a collection of good songs. Their murky swamp rock sound contains a variety of influences; – garage-soul-boogaloo, electric swamp-R&B, Sun studio gospel-billy, Stax (studio) instrumentals, Chess recordings, Byrds-psychedelia, Memphis horns, Blaxploitation, space-surf guitars, biker-soundtracks, Hammond grooves, spaghetti-westerns, campfire guitars, Mariachi brass, New Orleans funk, Latin jazz & even a hint of Asian mountain-music!!!! If you dig organic music and recordings you will dig this and with a gumbo of different influences the album is one big pot of boiling Organic Voodoo soup!

We have finished recording material for a new album at Parachute studio engineered by Roar Nilsen. So far so good! The process of mixing will start on the 4th of January and will be carefully handled by tape-maestro Don Dons at Hangaroundsounds.

Los Plantronics is supporting legendary 60’s garage punks The Sonics at Rockefeller music hall the 2nd of December. It goes without saying that the band are mucho thrilled to be there!!

RECORDING A BRAND NEW ALBUM

September 22, 2009

We’re in the middle of the process of recording 11 songs for a new album at Parachute Studios, enginered by Roar Nilsen. It will be good!

NEW DOMAIN AND WEBSITE

September 22, 2009

We have now officially a new webadresse www.losplantronics.com and a new website, launched october 2009.

LOS PLANTRONICS SIGNS WITH WICKED COOL!

April 26, 2009

Los Plantronics are now officially signed to Wicked Cool Records, New York, USA.

NEW BASS PLAYER JOINS THE LOS PLANTRONICS

February 14, 2008

Howdy!

We have a new bass-player (again!).
He’s name is Ibrahim T. Larson from Lillehammer. He’s also playing bass in the country-rock act SHIT CITY which was nominated for “Spellemannsprisen” (the Norwegian Grammy) this year. Check them out, they’re good!

The Tour dates section is also updated. Look out for some gigs in Greece and Denmark/Germany later this year.

Some even better news: at last our two latest albums (La Orchestra Diaboliqa and Rancho Notorious! ) will be released on vinyl in March (it hasn’t been easy, I tell you!). We’re looking forward to that one!!!